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Taking Measure

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Bill Healy

William M. Healy is the leader of and a supervisory mechanical engineer in the NIST Heat Transfer and Alternative Energy Systems Group. In addition to leading the group, he also manages the Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Buildings Program. His current research interests involve evaluation of the performance of net-zero energy homes, the development of improved test methods and metrics for assessing the performance of water heating systems, and the use of advanced sensing and data analytics for determining energy performance.

That House on the Hill: Bringing Measurement Science Home

February 21, 2019

When people ask NIST employees what they do, we often rely on the somewhat nebulous term “measurement science.” To many in the technical community, NIST’s role

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